Today's News

The Lancaster American Legion Post 31 junior team opens quest for a first-ever state baseball championship today when it faces fourth-seeded Beaufort in Marion.

Beaufort, the League I champion, meets fifth-seeded Lancaster at 11 a.m.

Lancaster, which launched the state playoffs as the third seed out of League V, earned its state bid with a 3-1 series win over League V regular-season runner-up Gaffney Post 109 earlier this month. Lancaster split two games in Gaffney before wrapping up the series with two straight wins at Eggleton Field.

Bell, a Unity resident, appeared at council’s meeting to protest the closing of the department, saying it could leave his neighborhood vulnerable to fires if other departments can’t respond in time. He worried that other volunteer fire departments might also be in danger of closing and that this was just the first closure.

I searched for an article to help me understand what the people who formed Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department hoped it would accomplish. I found an article in the Sept. 8, 1955, edition of The Lancaster News.

“The area is one of the most thickly populated sections of the county and the organization will serve a large number of residents and property owners,” the article said.

Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies have arrested several suspects in unrelated armed robberies in recent weeks, including one that left a man with a gunshot wound.

Robbery leads to shooting in Kershaw

Jerome Anthony Riley, 22, of 3884 Fork Hill Road, and Jonathan Elliot Butler, 16, of 638 Country Club Road, were each charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, armed robbery and possession of a gun during the commission of a violent crime.

Each day I ride by Founders Federal Credit Union site on Gillsbrook Road and feel an excitement at the progress of the complex under construction.

The clock tower with its pretty landscaping holds a store of significant memories in Lancaster County’s history.

I want to thank Bruce Brumfield, Founders Federal Credit Union CEO and the Founders board of directors for the confidence they have shown in Lancaster by placing the corporate complex here. Lancaster has sorely needed a boost in its economy and Founders corporate headquarters will do just that.